Peter Jeremy wrote:
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 01:57:16AM -0500, David Cuthbert wrote:
To be honest, I've never passed anything but FD_SETSIZE for this
parameter. When I'm writing a performance critical server, I use poll()
instead. It's faster
This is an interesting claim. D
Sean Hamilton wrote:
> What is the first parameter to select(2) for? Microsoft's select
ignores it,
> and it does not appear to have any valid use since it only allows
> constraints on values which are assigned by the system.
>
> Purely historic?
Ah, you've been reading the Winsock documentation
Terry Lambert wrote:
Average English word length is 5 characters; with a space, that's
6 characters. 65 characters is therefore 11 words. The Bell Labs
study which set telephone number length limits at 7 digits found
that the average person could keep between 5 and 9 items in memory
at a time. I
Wes Peters wrote:
Seriously, limiting your programming for a lifetime to 80 columns
because you couldn't figure out how to make some grotty old dot
matrix printer do 8-point printing a decade ago really isn't all
that smart, is it?
No, but I still find 80 columns to be a reasonable limit. The aver
David Schultz wrote:
Thus spake Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I don't understand why these companies don't just
include sources for their X drivers, it would make life so much easier.
Usually it's because they (wrongly) think it will protect their
trade secrets from competitors.
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